Workshop on Gap Analysis and Prioritization Providing Earth Observation Support to the Monitoring and Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals: Gaps and Priorities The ConnectinGEO project Ivette Serral 10 - 11 October 2016 IIASA. Schlossplatz 1 - A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria

Introduction 2 year H2020 funded project (641538). Now in the last months (ending by January 2017). Coordinate and Support Action (CSA) 15 partners A contribution of the EC to GEOSS Main objectives Perform a gap analysis in EO data, mainly in-situ Propose priorities for addressing this gaps Manage an European Network of Earth Observation (ENEON) Link gaps to EV and SDG

Main results - EV review and analysis EVs are variables that have a high impact and should have priority in designing, deploying and maintaining observation systems and making data and products available Coming from a Workshop in Bari, June 2015 and reported in the public D2.3: Proposal of EVs for selected themes 147 EVs reviewed Some of the EVs are not a single variable, but a cluster of several ones The community that has defined the highest number of EVs is currently the Climate one, lead by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) Most of the ECVs are relevant to the other GEO SBAs or themes Other communities already working on a mature set of EVs are Weather (lead by WMO/GAW) and Ocean, lead by the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) EV discussion and related work is growing fast in Biodiversity and Water. Energy community follows. Agriculture, Disasters, Ecosystems, Health, and Urban Development, are still in the initial stage

Conclusions Many SBA can rely on a number of EVs already available in other areas Better to concentrate efforts on those variables that are cross-cutting different domains and check if the requirements are the same Fragment of the summary table available in the deliverable

Main results - SDG review and analysis UN approved 17 SDGs articulated in 169 targets and 240 indicators to measure progress towards these targets How many indicators can be measured using Geospatial information and which subset can be measured with EO using EV? 231 of the 240 indicators can be calculated with socio-economic data, only 30 can be extracted with the combination of socio-economic data and Earth observation (in-situ, airborne or remote sensing), only 9 indicators by Earth observation alone, …, but Earth observation can be used to understand global processes that can help to retrieve other indicators. In ConnectinGEO, an effort has been done to link SDG with EV  available in the D2.3 Proposal of EVs for selected themes

Example

Organizing the European Contribution to GEOSS Instruments: European data hub - NextGEOSS ERA-Planet European Network of Earth Observation Networks Via: Participation in GD-06 Report provided on the status of in-situ observations ENEON workshops ENEON website ENEON activities E.g. Mapping the Networks SOS Web service for the networks linking data to GEOSS

Main results – Map of the EO networks A dynamic graph of the existent EO networks in Europe in JSON-LD format - http://www.eneon.net/graph Anyone can contribute! User feedback system integrated to enhance this first draft version

Main results – EO gaps analysis 176 gaps identified coming from the ConnectinGEO methodology Collected in a collaborative table were anyone can contribute: http://twiki.connectingeo.net/foswiki/bin/view/ConnectinGEOIntranet/GapAnalysisTable User feedback system integrated for a given gap

Some preliminary statistics extracted from the gaps

Other results – gaps inventory Linked to the GEO DAB and the GEOSS KB Metadata enrichers and data filters Formulating the right questions to assess the gaps

Other results – A WebGIS Client providing access to in-situ measurements: Based on the 52N SWE (Sensor Web Enablement) solution following OGC SOS (Sensor Observation Service) standard and GEOSS recommendation on interoperability http://insitu.webservice-energy.org/jsClient-0.2.0/#map visualization of sensor locations visualization of measurements as time series display of sensor metadata computation and statistical representation of time series download data

Challenges Sustainability and engagement in the ENEON Analyzing alternatives including social network or merging with other initiatives (ERA-Planet, NextGEOSS, ENVRI+…) Keep the network mapping updated Activate Bottom-Up Thread 2 and 3 to collect their gaps Apply the gap analysis methodology regularly Setting the right priorities for the current gaps Scientific Special Issue on Environmental and socio-economic methodologies and solutions towards integrated Essential Variable definition and generation